80s at 8
The neotraditional boom.
The 1980s brought country back to its roots—Strait, Skaggs, Randy Travis and the Judds put the fiddle and steel front and center again. The decade that made traditional country cool once more.
Loretta Hale
Afternoon Host
A honky-tonk historian with an encyclopedic memory for B-sides, Loretta keeps the afternoons rolling with dance-hall favorites and deep cuts you won't hear anywhere else.
Favorite steel player: Lloyd Green
On the playlist
A representative sample of the rotation on this show—it changes constantly, but this is the flavor.
- 11983
Amarillo By Morning
George Strait
- 21983
Highway 40 Blues
Ricky Skaggs
- 31984
Why Not Me
The Judds
- 41986
On the Other Hand
Randy Travis
- 51987
Forever and Ever, Amen
Randy Travis
- 61987
Ocean Front Property
George Strait
- 71986
I Tell It Like It Used To Be
T. Graham Brown
- 81987
Too Gone Too Long
Randy Travis
- 91988
Don't Close Your Eyes
Keith Whitley
- 101986
Miami, My Amy
Keith Whitley
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